Smaller Scale Solar Projects at Home

Yesterday, we mentioned [www.sundance.tv] the idea of cranking up the solar power with a roof-top, home-wide system that can help create clean power, reduce your utility bills, and maybe even allow you to put energy back into the grid, and then the local utility would be paying you — cool, huh? But that’s a big step; not everybody is ready to sign up for a $30,000 solar system (even though you don’t have to pay for all that yourself…more on that later this week). Here are some of our favorite ideas for taking a smaller-scale — but still effective — approach to enlisting the sun’s help in generating some of your own power.